For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear thou God.

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.

Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, and'set in order many proverbs.

And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.